International: Autobiography

To His Honor the Foreign Minister of Hungary, the peasants of Gyor
county brought their finest gifts: flour, bread, wine and suckling
pigs. They were proud that Laszlo Rajk, the second man to Matyas Rakosi
in the Communist Party, should head the election lists in their
district. Rajk thanked them with a simple speech, in calm and measured
accents.

That was last May. Last week Laszlo Rajk (pronounced Royk) spoke again
in calm and measured accents. What he said might have been a complete
fabricationbut it made an interesting tale. For five hours, before
the Hungarian People's Court which was trying him...